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Edible insects are regarded as a future food resource with abundant nutrition, but there is a sense of resistance to eating insects.
This time, foods such as fish cake and pork cutlet made with edible insects were provided as school meals for the first time.
What was the reaction, CJB Ahn Jung-eun reported on the report.
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side dish of fish cake was served at a high school lunch in Cheongju.
This is a fish cake made with cordyceps mushrooms grown on brown edible insects.
[Gang Ji-yul/Cheongju Ochanggo 2nd grade: After eating, it was okay to be able to eat without such a big rejection.]
[Wangseok Lee/Cheongju Ochanggo 2nd grade: If you think that edible insects are not contained, you can continue to eat them normally. I think there will be.]
It is a larva of a brown goosebumps, also called'Gosoae'.
If you grind this as it is and make food ingredients, you will have a great reluctance, so you can cultivate cordyceps that have absorbed the nutrients of the brown goosebumps and use them as food ingredients.
When cordyceps fungus is cultivated on the larvae of brown mealworm, a cordyceps sinensis containing nutrients of brown mealworm is born.
The'Gosoae Cordyceps' made in this way is nutritionally suitable for posting to school meals.
Gosoae cordyceps can be made into a variety of foods such as sweet and sour pork as well as fish cakes.
[Ahn Ki-su/Director of the Insect Seed Supply Center, Chungbuk Agricultural Research Institute: We did not use the insect as it is, but processed it once more, or improved the image of the insect.)] It
will not be too long to accept edible insects, which have been attracting attention as food resources in the future, to our table. It doesn't look.
(Video coverage: Park Hee-sung CJB)